Railway-tie.



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H. G. STAAB.

RAILWAY TIE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.23, 1906.

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PATENTED FEB. 5, 1907. H. G. STAAB.

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HERMAN G. STAAB, OF MIL VAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

RAILWAY-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 5, 1907.

Application filed August 23, 1906. Serial No. 331,737.

Be it known that I, HERMAN G. S'IAAB, re siding in Milwaukee, in thecounty of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Railway- Ties, of which the following is a description,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are a part ofthis speci'lication.

My invention has relation to improvements in railwayties; and it relatesparticularly to a construction wherein the ties may be laid uniformlystraight throughout, but yet will be adapted not only for rails runningin astraight line, but also for rails running at various angles or invarious directionsas, for instance, as covered in my issued United tatesLetters Patent No. 826,905, dated July 24, 1906, for improvements inrailwayties.

The object of the present invention is to provide an I-bcam form of tiehaving the above characteristics; and with this object in view theinvention consists of the devices and parts or the equivalents thereof,as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a fragment of arailway-tie embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectionof Fig. 1, showing a rail applied to the tie, the said rail being intransverse section. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the tie on the line 3 3of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a plan view of a fragment of a railway-tie,illustrating a modification, the lips being shown as bent up. Fig. 5 isa longitudinal section of I Fig. i, and Fig. 6 is a crossseotion of Fig.4.

Referring particularly to Sheet 1 of the drawings, the numeral 4indicates the tie, which is in the form of an I-beam of any suitablemetal, but preferably of steel, although malleable iron may be used, ifdesired, to advantage. The top plate or head 5 of this tie is providedthereover with a series of lips 6, which ordinarily or before the tie isput into service lie in a horizontal plane with said top plate of thetie. Preferably the lips in some of the longitudinal lines of lips havetheir free ends pointing toward one end of the tie and the lips in otherof the lines have their free ends pointing toward the opposite end ofthe tie. The lips are preferably formed by making U-shaped cuts 7 in thetop plate of the tie, the metal remaining after the cuts are madeforming the said lips (5. The cuts, it will be noticed, are madesufficiently wide to provide a clearance for the insertion of a toolwhich may be employed for conveniently turning the lips upwardly andover to engage the base of the rail. It will be noticed that the cornersof the free ends of the lips are rounded. By this provision the lips aremade much stronger than if sharp corners were left at the free endsthereof. In setting the ties they are "firmly embedded or anchored inthe railway-bed, the sand and dirt being packed around the base andupwardly a desired distance of the height of the web of the I-beamforming the tie.

In Fig. 2 of the drawings a rail 8 is shown in cross-section asextending across the tie in a straight line. When a rail is so laid, itis secured in place by bending the lips 6, which are nearest to the baseof the rail, around the edges and onto the top of said rail-base.

The form of tie herein shown is such that said tie may be laiduniforn'lly straight throughout and a rail or any number of rails may belaid not only across the tie in a straight line, but may be laid. acrosssaid tie at a variety of different angles and in a variety of differentdirections, and when so laid there will always be some of the lips 6 adjacent to the base of the rail in position to be bent over said rail-basein order to hold the rail in place. The necessity for providingdifferent kinds of ties for rails running in different directions or atdifferent angles is therefore avoided in the construction herein setforth and described, and the employment of bolts, nuts, &c., is alsoavoided.

The employment of the lips 6, arranged and constructed as abovedescribed, in connection with the I-beam form of tie, produces a mostadvantageous construction, capable of being economically made and havingthe advantage of being a form of tie which is adapted not only to beeasily and quickly anchored or embedded in the railway-bed, but whichis, furthermore, adapted for general use as a tie on all railway-railsystems.

Sheet 2 of thedrawings illustrates a modified form of construction. Inthis modification, instead of employing a series of lips arranged oversubstantially the entire surface of the head of the tie, I employ foreach rail which is laid in a straight line across the tie two lips,(designated 6,) the said two lips adapted when a rail-base is insertedtherebe- IIO tween to be bent over said rail-base. The distance betweenthe innermost lip 6 of one set and the innermost lip 6 of the other setcorresponds to the standard gage or Width of track, and hence when railsare engaged by the two lips of a set the said rails are spaced thestandard distance apart. The lips 6 are used for rails adapted to extendstraight across the tie; but comparatively few switchrails are laid ascompared to straight rails; but when it is desired to use the tieillustrated on Sheet 2 for a switch and the track is already down it isnot necessary to tear up the track in order to put in the switch, as myinvention contemplates that every section foreman will be provided witha suitable form of die for stamping out additional lips of any desirableshape and located at any desired point of the tie. Two of theseadditional lips are illustrated on Sheet 2 of the drawings anddesignated by the numeral 6 These lips 2 after being bent up are slantedin diagonally opposite directions in order to prop erly engage the baseof the slanting switchrail laid across the tie. In this modification itis also preferred that the lips 6 and 6 be formed by cutting U-shapedcuts in the head of the tie, as in the form of construction illustratedon Sheet 1.

What I claim as my invention is 1. A railway-tie of I-beam form incrosssection, the upper plate or head of said tie having a series ofpairs of rounded lips provided thereon and disposed in longitudinallines, said pairs of rounded lips being out of alinement transverselyand the lips of each 1 side of the web, but in alinement with the pairpointing in opposite direction to the adjacent pair, the lips which arenearest to the base of a rail extending over a plate adapted to be bentover said rail-base.

2. A railway-tie 0t I-beam form in crosssection, longitudinal lines ofrounded lips formed from the head of the I-beam on each side of the webthereof, said rounded lips disposed out of alinement transversely withthe longitudinal line of lips on the head on the same side of the web,the lips which are near- I est to the base of a rail extending over thehead adapted to be bent over the base of the rail.

3. A railway-tie of Lbeam form in crosssection, longitudinal lines ofrounded lips formed from the head of the 1-beam on each side of the webthereof, said rounded lips disposed out of alinement transversely withthe longitudinal lines of lips on the same side of the web, but inalinement with the corresponding lines of rounded lips upon the head onthe opposite side of the web the lips which are nearest to the base of arail extending over the head at any angle adapted to be bent over thebase of the rail.

4. A railway-tie of fit-beam form in crosssection, longitudinal lines ofrounded lips formed from the head of the I-beam on each side of the webthereof, and said lips being initially flat with the top of the head,but adapted to be bent up and over, said rounded lips disposed out ofalinement transversely with the longitudinal lines of lips on the sameside of the web, but in alinement with the corresponding lines of lipsupon the head on the opposite side of the web, the lips which arenearest to the base of a rail extending over the head at any angle,adapted to be bent over the base of the rail.

5. A railway-tie of Lbeam form in crosssection, the upper plate or headof said tie having a series of longitudinal lines of approximateU-shaped cuts forming rounded lips upon each side of the webconnecting'the top plate to the bottom plate, said rounded lips disposedout of alinement transversely with the longitudinal lines of lips on thesame corresponding lips upon the opposite side of the web, whereby lipsare provided for bending over the base of a rail extending over theplate at any angle.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature 90 in presence of twowitnesses.

HERMAN G. STAAB.

Witnesses:

FRANK NIeHoL, JOSEPH H. Moons.

